Category Archives: Agile Testing

Have you ever wondered about the meaning of DONE in DevOps? If you’re including DevOps in the definition of DONE, what are the agile changes that need to occur? Tweet This. Fortunately, after working with many organizations exploring these questions, … Continue reading →

Over the past few years, I’ve become more familiar with the works of Jerry Weinberg. One of his best is a book called Secrets of Consulting, which I highly recommend to all those who give advice for a living. Among … Continue reading →

We hope you enjoy this holiday poem on Sprint Planning. It was an early holiday gift to the Agile Management Blog from Daniel Gullo, owner/principal of Apple Brook Consulting. Thanks, Daniel! ‘Twas the night before Sprint Planning, and all through the … Continue reading →

In this guest post by Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum and CEO of Scrum, Inc., you will learn five reasons why 49% of agile projects fail – and how you can avoid it. My book, “Scrum: The Art of Doing … Continue reading →

We just got done moderating the latest webinar in the AgileLIVE series… “The Challenges and Rewards of DevOps.” The series started last week with Damon Poole, chief agilist at Eliassen Group. Damon did a really good deep-dive into What is DevOps? … Continue reading →

So, you want to be an Agile shop. You’ve read all kinds of cool stuff about Sprints, and WIP limits, and daily stand-up meetings. You even think you get this crazy User Story and Planning Poker stuff. You put together a … Continue reading →

Forgive me for bringing up show tunes. I love the old musicals. One of the true classics of American theater is the show Oklahoma. I got to thinking about this in a very roundabout way the other day. The song, called … Continue reading →

I was a QA Lead back in the mid 90’s for a couple of years, before any of this fancy Agile stuff really started taking off. Waterfall all the way back then; mostly manual testing, with full regression cycle at … Continue reading →

It’s that time of year when Christmas lists make the rounds of family and friends. This annual rite of passage can usually be summed up as “I want, I want, I want”. Unfortunately in software development, most of our business … Continue reading →